Description
Book SynopsisOffers an exploration of the Supreme Court's approach to religion, offering a close look at various cases. This book traces the history of the way the Court has rendered important decisions involving religious liberty. It offers a fresh analysis of some of the Court's most important decisions in constitutional doctrine.
Trade Review"The Supreme Court and Religion in American Life provides for the general reader a useful road map through the history and case law. The first of the two volumes tells the history rather comprehensively, with a minimum of interpretive overlay. The second tries to understand the story. Hitchcock's work is especially valuable for his extensive coverage of the Court's religion jurisprudence before the deluge--that is, before the 1940s, when the Court deliberately made itself a tribunal of the nation's religious disputes."--Russell Hittinger, First Things
Table of ContentsIntroduction to Volume 1 1 CHAPTER O NE The Kingdom of This World 3 CHAPTER T WO Belief and Action 18 CHAPTER T HREE The Phantom Wall 32 CHAPTER F OUR Clouds of Witnesses 43 CHAPTER F IVE Expansion 60 CHAPTER S IX Contraction 90 CHAPTER S EVEN Religious Education and Public Support 122 C ONCLUSION 149 Notes 163 Bibliography 193 Index of Justices 205 Index of Cases 207 General Index 213
